Sound Fonts

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Currently 2 sampler engines are includedin Zynthian:

  • LinuxSampler => SFZ and GIG soundfont formats
  • FluidSynth >= SF2 soundfont format

Synth engines in Zynthian support Soundfonts in various file formats.

Zynthian includes the Salamander Piano soundfont in SFZ format. It's >1 GB! You can use SFZ and GIG font with the LinuxSampler engine, that reads the samples directly from the SD card, preloading only a small part of the file and using an advanced caching system. In that way you can use a soundfont bigger than the available amount of RAM.

Soundfont files are typically stored in this directory on your Zynthian:

/zynthian/zynthian-my-data

One needs to place GIG files into a subfolder in the

/zynthian/zynthian-my-data/soundfonts/gig

Links to soundfonts

Lots of links http://www.synthfont.com/links_to_soundfonts.html

Harpsichord http://sonimusicae.free.fr/blanchet1-en.html

Mellotron https://www.dropbox.com/s/tcxegv7mh0y4y4a/Mellotron.rar?dl=0

Mellotron http://download.linuxsampler.org/instruments/vintage/TaijiguyGigaTron.tar.bz2